Latest News for: pinker
Edit
Psych Professor Steven Pinker Criticizes Cancel Culture in Academia, Promotes Ideological Openness at IOP Forum
The Harvard Crimson 13 Nov 2025
Pinker condemned the rise of cancel culture in higher education at an Institute of Politics forum on Wednesday, telling his audience that academics must avoid punitive reactions to peers who voice unorthodox beliefs.
Edit
When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker: Padded out and repetitive
The Irish Times 01 Nov 2025
Steven Pinker illustrates the main idea of his latest popular science book with a joke from the Soviet Union ... Pinker’s chief focus, however, is on everyday relationships ... Despite Pinker’s obvious erudition, this isn’t one of his most satisfying works.
Edit
Opinion | Pinker Whiffs at My Case for the Human Soul
Wall Street Journal 31 Oct 2025
Charles Murray replies to a critic ... .
Edit
Steven Pinker Explains What Happens When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
The Harvard Crimson 23 Oct 2025
Pinker sat down at the First Parish Church to discuss his most recent book, “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… ... Complicated though it may seem, it affects much of human interaction, according to Pinker.
Edit
How to Beat the Tyranny of What ‘Everyone Knows’
The Daily Sceptic 23 Oct 2025
Pinker uses the famous example of Václav Havel, the great Czech dissident, who cited a greengrocer displaying a sign in his shop window saying “Workers of the World Unite”, even though his faith in Marxism has long since lapsed.
Edit
Altruism vs Selfishness
Dissident Voice 21 Oct 2025
According to the ‘Pinker logic,” he immediately saw an opportunity to earn an extra big banana provision from the keeper impressed by his valorous act.
- 1
